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Archbishop Sheen and
the Carmelites. The
Servant of God was deeply attracted to the Carmelite
Order. A
series of letters which
he saved all his life to the Carmelite Sisters in
New Albany, Indiana, demonstrates this clearly: “Your
(Carmelite) prayers and sufferings do more good than all
our preaching and our hectic actions.
We make the noise; we get the credit; we enjoy
the consolation of a victory seen and tasted. You are responsible for it and yet you cannot see the
fruits—but you will on that day when the Cross appears
in the heavens and every man is rewarded according to
his works.” “I
want to cling onto Carmel for I love its love of Jesus.
I refuse to give it up and like the blind man of
Jericho I shall go on shouting out to you continually to
cure my blindness and my ills.” “Make
Fr. Sheen a priest burning with love for Thee alone.”
(Sheen
Archives Box 48) His special bond of friendship with the Carmelite Order was sealed, when on July 17, 1948 the 53 year-old Fulton Sheen made his Profession as a member of the Carmelite Third Order. He was at that time Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC. County Wicklow born Most Rev. Kilian Lynch, O. Carm., Prior General of the Carmelite Order, received the Carmelite Third Order Profession of Fulton Sheen at a ceremony in the Carmelite House of Studies, White Friars Hall, Washington DC. Fr. Lynch had arrived in the United States from Rome to preside at the Provincial Chapter of the American Carmelite Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary and was assisted at the ceremony by Fr. Kilian J. Healy, O. Carm., Prior, and Fr. John Marcellus Scheuer, O. Carm., Prefect of Students and friend of Fulton. |
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